Partners 2016

PUNE TECHNOLOGY (PUNE TECH)
PuneTech is a non-commercial forum intended to bring together in one place all information about interesting software technology in Pune – the companies, the tech user groups and organizations, the people, and the technologies, the news and the events. PuneTech has been running since March 2008, and in this short time it has been very successful in filling the information gap that existed in the tech ecosystem in Pune. http://punetech.com

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOFTWARE AND SERVICES COMPANIES (NASSCOM)
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is a trade association of Indian Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. Established in 1988, NASSCOM is a non-profit organisation.
NASSCOM is a global trade body with over 1500 members, of which over 250 are companies from the US, UK, EU, Japan and China. NASSCOM's member companies are in the business of software development, software services, software products, IT-enabled/BPO services and e-commerce.http://www.nasscom.in

THE INDUS ENTREPRENEURS (TiE)
TIE: The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently 11,000 members, including over 2,500 charter members in 60 chapters across 17 countries. TiE's mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and education. Dedicated to the virtuous cycle of wealth creation and giving back to the community, TiE's focus is on generating and nurturing our next generation of entrepreneurs. https://www.tie.org

CENTRE FOR INNOVATION INCUBATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CIIE)
Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM Ahmedabad is India's premier incubator and one of its most active seed investors. It accelerates companies by providing seed capital, mentorship, advisory services, and strategic connections through its network. To date we have investments in 85+ startups across India in specific sectors - Informtion & Communication Technology (ICT), Social Enterprises and Cleantech. For every rupee invested by us, our portfolio ventures have raised on an average Rs 12 from follow-on investors. http://www.ciieindia.org/

SME JOINUP
SMEJOINUP.com is a platform where an entrepreneur/Small Business can request for a service. The services that SME JOINUP hosts are Accounting , Payroll , HR,Technology,Legal,Funding etc with over 500 trusted and reliable companies providing these services.
Considering how important it is to get the right vendor for your company,SMEJOINUP makes the search and transaction smooth and pain free.
http://smejoinup.com

MAHRATTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INDUSTRIES & AGRICULTURE (MCCIA)
MCCIA has been playing a significant role in accelerating the industrial and economic development of Pune region for more than seven decades now. It is one of the most active chambers of Commerce in India and has been instrumental in promoting number of institutions in Pune. MCCIA has continuously driven to make Pune a global business destination and has been catalyst for economic development of the region.http://www.mcciapune.com

SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY PARKS OF INDIA (STPI)
India has many reasons to feel proud about the success of its Software Industry. During the post liberalization era, Govt. policies have acted as a catalyst and facilitated the growth of IT exports.
The software Industry has attained global recognition primarily because of the timing of the policies and simplistic procedures laid-down by the Govt. when they were needed. The Industry also has responded very well to the changes in the policy.
The right partnership between the Govt. & Industry has facilitated this success. Establishment of the Software Technology Park Scheme in 1991 has been a step in the right direction, at the right time. http://www.mah.stpi.in/index.html

INDO-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (IACC)
Established in 1968, incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) is a non-government, industry led and industry-managed organization, playing a proactive role in India's development process and serves as a much need link between the business communities of India and the United States of America. IACC is the only bilateral Chamber of commerce in India, which is committed to development of Indo-US business and trade relation.

The major objective of IACC is to promote Indo-American business, trade and economic relation. IACC promote bilateral trade, investment and technology transfer, facilitates business collaborations, joint ventures, marketing tie-ups and strategic alliances through a set of proactive business-oriented initiatives. In particular has established the following objective:
- Facilitate exports of manufactured and agricultural products from India
- Facilitate US-based SMEs to do business with India
- Promote Environment-related trade between India and US
- Facilitate collaboration between Hollywood & Bollywood
- Facilitate US Investments in India's Real Estate sector
- Facilitate outsourcing of services from US to Indiahttps://www.iaccindia.com/default.asp

PUNE OPEN COFFEE CLUB
Pune Open Coffee Club was started to encourage Startup Founders and those connected to Startups from Pune to organize real-world informal meet ups to share, network and grow. The Club has over 10,000 members including investors, lawyers, accountants and freelancers who work with startups. The Club members usually meet on the 1st Saturday of every month. punestartups.org

ISPIRT
SPIRT Foundation connects and guides software product entrepreneurs and catalyzes business growth. It's an enabler of a stronger ecosystem. We encourage buyers to improve performance by leveraging software products effectively. We advise policy makers on interventions that can set the industry on a higher growth trajectory. We are a not-for-profit industry think-tank founded by key participants and proponents of the Indian software product industry. For more details at http://www.ispirt.in/

Product Leaders Forum (PLF)
Product Leaders Forum (PLF) is a not for profit initiative. Our intent is to build an active forum of product leaders helping build stronger product mindsets and skillsets in India. As we accelerate the journey of creating & celebrating product leaders, Product Leaders Forum is a volunteer driven conference to help accelerate career paths for professionals in the ecosystem.http://productleadersforum.org/

HINJAWADI INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (HIA)
Hinjawadi Industries Association (HIA) was laid out to provide a joint forum to all stakeholders based out of Hinjawadi and nearby places. The basic objective of the HIA is to have a structured growth of infrastructure, security and facilities for its member companies and their employees. HIA, along with addressing common concern of its stakeholders, also represents itself in other organizations and Government Agencies.http://hiapune.in/

Startup Directory

Company Name

Overview

Website

Acism

Acism was born to be an IT product company. We have been developing and enhancing software products, funded through software services. We developed, sold and shelved a recruitment software product when we stumbled across the vast area of business communications. Today we have put our full might behind our communication product Kommbox.

www.acism.com

Arcyus

Arcyus is a, primarily, research-oriented company committed to harnessing the power of bleeding-edge deep learning techniques to develop meaningful applications, both for the benefit of the common user and for augmenting enterprise services. We have developed a suite of core technologies for imaging applications that can be applied to multiple domains like e-commerce, healthcare etc.

www.arcyus.com

Blue wired

Blue wired is a start up organization in Pune that offers secure and affordable housing solutions, to meet the needs of today's residential, commercial and industrial buildings. With the aim of providing enhanced convenience and comfort, we provide a wide range of products which are 'reliable', 'sustainable' and 'deeply customisable'. Blue Wired solutions help customers achieve savings in energy, time and cost, all while enhancing safety. The end result is a smart home which saves your time, money and allows you to enjoy complete security.

www.bluewired.in

CAROK

CAROK is a Pune based startup with a mission to bring trust, transparency and efficiency to the unorganised automotive care sector. CAROK has a tie-up with a large number of car service providers in Pune. Using the CAROK website or call centre, a customer can get competitive quotes for his/her car servicing and also book a servicing appointment at their convenience. Along with this, CAROK's trained mechanics & service advisors will personally supervise the servicing of the customer's car to ensure that the service centre does a good job. Short Term Goal: With their recent funding, CAROK has a short-term goal of reaching 5,000 servicing bookings in Pune by March 2016. Long Term Goal: The long-term goal is to become the number one car care portal of the country.

www.carok.in/

eRiyaz

eRiyaz provides an online technology assisted learn to sing curriculum. We teach using a number of apps which exercise various aspects of singing well. The Apps provide real time feedback to students when they are practicing on their own, replicating the presence of an accomplished Guru all the time. The curriculum is delivered to students by music teachers who track students progress, set goals and clear doubts in weekly sessions. Currently we are focusing on learning to sing in tune and develop a strong musical foundation. We are also adding modules for rhythm training , voice development, community feedback and gamification.

www.eriyaz.com/landing/main.html

ImageProVision Technology Pvt Ltd

ImageProVision Technology Pvt Ltd is an Indian company in Image Processing arena. Founded in 2010 in Pune, India, ImageProVision is serving various industry segments like Pharmaceutical, Agriculture, Medical & Life Sciences, Defence, Chemical & Manufacturing sectors through its products and services. ImageProVision has team of experts in developing intelligent programs and providing world class innovative products. ImageProVision works in a vast space of image processing from nano-images to satellite-images with a dominant position in Microscopic Image Processing segment.

www.imageprovision.com/

Infiverve Technologies

Infiverve started its operations in October 2013. We are a young and flourishing start-up committed to delivering innovative solutions of the highest standard. Infiverve is currently operation in two verticals Products and Services. We are passionate about technology and believe in creating innovative products which not only solve real business problems but help our customers achieve greater business success. Our core focus is to develop/implement solutions based upon the best of the technologies. Our highly competent and seasoned core team brings along more than 25 years of extensive experience across Software R&D, Integration middleware and Cloud consulting.

www.getflint.io/

InJarwis Technologies Pvt Limited

InJarwis Technologies Pvt Limited was incorporated with an objective to provide sound infrastructure for service discovery and delivery over the internet. The founders are COEP (College of Engineering, Pune) alumni with 15+ years of IT experience and passion for building awesome products.

www.vivifii.com/

Intouchapp

Our phones have become smarter, but the way we manage our contacts is still the same - manual and error-prone. InTouchApp aims to change that. InTouchApp is the Dropbox for Contacts - a smart contact manager for your phone. It leverages the cloud to provide users with features that enable them to manage their most important resource - their phone contacts - effortlessly - no matter which phone device they use.
Today, InTouchApp is the world's most advanced Contact manager for mobile-first user, managing over a billion contacts for millions of users around the world.

www.intouchapp.com/

Jobhash

Jobhash is an early stage startup in the mobile-first, data-driven recruitment space. We are aiming to revolutionize talent discovery and engagement, with machine learning and intelligent social profiling.

www.jobhashapp.com/

KidNurture

Ambrosial is a software product development company formed with a focus for providing intelligent healthcare IT solutions. With our current core focus on pediatric healthcare, we are striving to create a platform for all pediatric caregivers- such as parents, pediatricians, child therapists, agencies. So that they can provide holistic nurture to the children and ensure timely detection and early intervention.

www.kidnurture.com/

LightVision Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Founded in June 2014 with the objective to connect citizens with local politicians to add transparency and accountability in our current system that will help them make performance-based decisions during elections.

www.netag.info/

Loco Cabs

Loco Cabs is a app based meta-search platform for taxi cabs. We are currently aggregating Radio cabs, with a pan India presence.We are now initiating search, compare and book feature for Point to Point, Outstation, Hourly Packages and Airport Transfers.

www.lococabs.com/

MeatRoot

Founded by techies, MeatRoot is a Pune based specialty online meat store dealing exclusively in meat & meat products. MeatRoot aims to disrupt age old practices of meat supply chain. It is curated platform integrating quality meat suppliers of Chicken, Goat meat, Sea food, Pork, Turkey, duck, etc. with domestic consumers. We work only against orders insuring zero inventory model for fresh range of meats. We are more into customized processing taking into account customer's instructions/recipes. Freshness centric custom processing of meat & delivery operations separates us from other grocery players in the market. We are playing an important role of quality & convenience layer between meat demand and supply.

www.meatroot.com/

Mooshak

We observed that the continuous lowering of technological and economic barriers to mobile internet access had not really benefited the growing non-English speaking user base from smaller towns, either in terms of experience, or the availability of quality content. We saw this as a problem, and as an opportunity to both build a viable business, as well as make an important social impact.

www.mooshak.in/

muhurtmaza ventures

A Short Intro to MuhurtMaza: You are planning to organize a small pooja at home. You do not know how to contact a pundit nor where and how to procure the materials needed for the rituals. Or your kid's birthday is drawing near and you want to start the day with a religious ceremony. To take care of all these necessary details, log into Muhurtmaza.com! Through this website and app, it is our endeavor to provide the rituals needed by anyone, eventually anywhere in the world. These services are provided by MuhurtMaza at an optimum price and convenience. The business model was conceptualized in 2012 and launched in 2014. The idea behind setting up this business cropped up after an in-depth market analysis. We found out that this particular segment was unorganized and current relevant market in India is $30 billion. That's when we decided to step in! Till date, we have performed 100+ Poojas, Yagya and Vidhi bookings. Currently, 140+ Poojas are offered and it growing as per customer feedback. We have 250+ experienced and well-versed Gurujis/Pundits, some of them specializing in regional Pooja rituals; have enrolled with us. To reach out to our clients, we are enabling sales through a revamped website, iOS and Android mobile app. At the same time, our social presence is increasing and 3500+ likes strong in 5 weeks. Our plan is to expand into 20 top cities ($1 billion target market size) in India and target $ 1 million (250 Pooja per month per city) in revenue.

www.muhurtmaza.com/

NavStik Labs

NavStik is one of the very few high-tech startups in the world, working on building next-generation platforms for commercial drone applications. In 2015, 3 million commercial drones worth $1.5 bn will be sold. That represents a growth rate of 300% over previous year. NavStik is working on building platforms/standards for this fast growing industry. Founded by alumni from IIT Bombay and University of Maryland, NavStik is now powered by a strong, talented and passionate team with background from IITs, NITs, University of Edinburgh and Texas Tech. NavStik products have been used by 40+ customers in 10+ countries. NavStik was the winner of Startup Showcase at TiECON Pune 2015, and has been featured in Economic Times, NDTV Gadgets, TOI, Indian Express, Mint, etc.

www.navstik.org/

Primehoardings

Our vision is to make advertising easy, transparent and accessible to all. To start with, we are taking over the 3000 crore fragmented messy hoardings market of India. You can rarely see a hoarding and know its price, availability and agency. What if you can?

www.primehoardings.com/

RoboEasy

We envision a future where software and electronics empowers everyone to create. For the same RoboEasy aims to build a strong platform introducing EduTech. Combining practicality with education, RoboEasy help students in developing logical thinking, enhancing decision making, connecting with practical life and much more. RoboEasy visions to make education practical and fun starting with Robotics for everyone.

www.roboeasy.co/

SmarterHi

At SmarterHi, we are focused on making enterprise telephony secure, reliable, and efficient. Our Products and Solutions are engineered from the ground up with a single agenda – making life easier for enterprises.

www.smarterhi.com/

Stratawiz

Stratawiz is a design and technology driven product company. We strive to use our creativity and technical prowess to build innovative enterprise mobile products to make marketing more effective and sales more productive. Our first product" Rapport" is first of its kind mobile based engagement and productivity platform that use game mechanics, social features and analytics to help companies bring out the best in their sales teams.

www.rapportworx.com/

SunVeg

SunVeg (brand of Alpine Fruit Processing Pvt Ltd) is range of Solar Dried Vegetables and Fruits dried using innovative Solar Dish Dryer. SunVeg is currently available in the market via online channels and also supplying to other food processing to add health component to their Ready to Eat or Ready to Cook products. SunVeg also comes in Ready to Eat or Ready to Cook packages for retail market.

www.sunveg.in/

SweetsInBox.com

SweetsInBox is a portal that brings best of Indian sweets, snacks and savories to central portal. We work on ground to identify the best of regional specialty food from difference parts of India and deliver them across India. There is a huge demand of authentic food products but due to absence of logistics and IT knowledge, products were restricted to a small geography but not any more. We enable small sweets shops to home makers to show case their mastery to larger audience.

www.sweetsinbox.com/

The Football Mind

TheFootballMind.com is a revolutionary venture that aims at bringing together all entities related to football into one network. Our purpose is to provide 360 degree solution for footballing needs through our networking portal (www.thefootballmind.com) and a set of unique SaaS products which are used to manage and communicate internally and externally for football entities, promote grassroots football, consolidate and provide seamless access to information and enable complete networking within the footballing world.

www.thefootballmind.com/

Trendzlink

Trendzlink is a fast lean startup of IIM A - COEP graduate in news media space. Starting out as a 2nd year project within IIM A, Trendzlink has morphed into a full fledged commercial venture, with our first product being launched within 6 months to a great success. We aim to create a difference in consumption of news and information by using cutting edge technology.

www.trendzlink.com/

Autodynamic Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

Veg Wash+ natural cleanser for toxicants present on the surface of fruits and vegetables , JUST water isn't Enough !

Entrib Technologies is a disrupter in Mobile Workforce Productivity Solutions for Enterprises. With our cloud based offering (www.mob5apps.com), we provide a cost effective way for enterprises to increase productivity of their mobile workforce by quickly integrating with back end systems to provide end users with access to critical business related data securely and in real time. Solutions include mobile on the spot billing, delivery confirmation and feedback, procurement, site inspections, offered in a SaaS model.

www.entrib.com

KnightX+

Knightx+ is a cyber intelligence platform that harnesses the power of cloud to do proactive monitoring, analysis and automated response of live cyber threats and opportunities.

http://knightxplus.com/

Eava NEURAL SPACE Pvt. Ltd.

A large number of talented students tend to lag behind due to their slow learning skills. But almost 150 such students in the age group 6 to 33 years are seeing brighter future for themselves with the help of a city-based company Neural Space.
Neural Space™ is a company that is dedicated to helping the young and old, enhance their mental processing speed and capacity in order to achieve their full potential. Licensed by LearningRx, one of the forerunners in Child Enrichment programs in America, Neural Space's™ 'BrainRx' program is backed by the scientific research and proven results.

www.neuralspace.org

Wifi-soft Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Wifi-soft is one of the leading Indian companies that provide software, hardware and management solutions to the Wi-Fi industry. Today, Wifi-soft manages over 2,000 medium to large Wi-Fi hotspots across the world including those in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Mexico, India, South Africa, Turkey, Singapore, Vietnam and more.
Wifi-soft has developed enterprise-class proprietary hardware called UniBox for managing all back-office activities of public Wi-Fi hotspots and hotzones. UniBox provides all-in-one solution which includes authentication, captive portal, reporting, bandwidth control, user management, billing, PMS integration and more.

Appacitive makes it ridiculously easy for app developers to setup a server side backend for the apps. Using Appacitive, app developers can focus on build awesome apps, without getting bogged down with the hassles and cost of running and maintaining large server side infrastructure. Simply draw and publish your platform to the cloud with inbuilt support for data storage, push notifications, user management and much more.

www.appacitive.com

Atharva Informatics Pvt Ltd

Started in the year 2010, bizporto.com is a local B2B product search engine that organizes and provides precise and meaningful product and services information 'glocally'.
It is the right place for a micro / small / medium businessman, trader, manufacturer or service provider looking for an online platform & communication tool that generates business leads for forward and backward integration from the specified geographic location to best meet their requirement.
Essentially, it is a marketplace for buyers and sellers to connect with each other for a win-win association.
The current focus of the company is micro / small / medium companies in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. The portal specializes in local searches. For example, if a buyer in Pune is searching for a machinery part, he is most likely to get suppliers from Pune. This makes bizporto.com the only business search engine that provides leads based on the geography.

www.bizporto.com

splashgain Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd

Splashgain's vision is to establish itself as the prominent leader in IT Products & product services in the education sector. It intends to build a virtual market place for all of its innovative information technology products with a focus on using latest technologies to bridge the digital divide and to bring in much needed reforms in the Indian education sector.Our Clients includes large group of institutes, Graduation institutes,Management schools, Professional Training Institutes along with schools. Our online admission platform ePravesh.com has won many awards including India's TOp Software Projects 2012, Hottest eCommerce Startup of the year 2011 etc.

www.epravesh.com

SmartCloud Infotech

We at SmartCloud Infotech (www.smartcloudinfotech.com ) are a group of Ex-Electronic Arts folk focused on developing apps and games for SmartPhones and tablets, using cloud technology, for the global market, primarily out of Pune, India.
We provide outsourced development services to companies. We deliver good quality work, on time, at a reasonable price. We are 1 year old and employ 80+ people. We have proven experience in providing successful solutions for iOS, Android, HTML5, Windows Mobile, web technologies and RIM.

http://www.smartcloudinfotech.com

Ignite Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Ignite Solutions is changing the way people consume and interact with video. We develop technology platforms and services to make TVs and online video interactive by delivering synchronized content and rich apps to second-screen and primary viewing devices.
SideKick, Ignite's flagship product, offers an inter-connected platform for cable & DTH operators, program networks,content producers, internet video publishers, and developers of interactive applications.
SideKick makes it easier than ever to create rich apps to keep audiences hooked on second screens or smart TVs. For example, using SideKick, a TV producer can easily create quizzes for a game show that viewers can answer on their mobile devices while watching the show, or share additional content about a reality show (participants' bios, uncut footage, and so on).

www.ignitesol.com

FAQ

Who can apply for Pune connect Event?
Any startup from Pune or nearby regions can apply. We have a slight
preference for product startups, technology startups (not necessarily
just software), and startups that are looking for customers amongst
Pune's Software Companies or Manufacturing sector - but none of these is
a hard requirement. We love any interested Pune startup. If you're
unsure of whether you're eligible, go ahead and apply, and the selection
committee will figure it out.

How to apply?
Please click here for Application Form. The last date to submit entries is 8 october 2016.

What are fees for applying/showcase?
This event is completely free for startups that are selected in the
startup show case. More established companies can get paid stall at very
nominal rates.

What are benefits?
Benefits to selected startups includes:
• Exposure to Pune's top companies, potential customers and potential mentors
• Exposure to Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors who are being invited to the event
• Press and media coverage before and after the event
• Entry for PuneConnect winners to National level events organized by NASSCOM

Who can attend PuneConnect?
Anyone who's interested in startups and the Pune startup ecosystem can attend this event.

I have already applied but I have not received any confirmation?
When you applied, you should have received an email with your username and temporary password. If you did receive this
email, use this information to go to
http://db.puneconnect.com
- as
soon as you log in, a status message will indicate that your application
is complete. If yes, there is nothing else you need to do.

Can I pitch my idea, before forming company?
Yes, you can. But you need to have a working product demo ready.

I am college student can I apply?
Yes, certainly. PuneConnect wishes to encourage student-run startups. In fact, we might even have a separate category for student startups, if we get enough good entries. So please apply, and ask your friends too.

Can I apply for my Concept?
No. At this time, we are only accepting applications for
ready/working demonstrable products, not concepts.

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Puneconnect 2015

Puneconnect 2015

68 startups were selected to demo at Pune Connect 2015. 5 of them were selected to pitch their product on stage to a panel of judges. These startups have been declared as the winners:

Winners:Pune Connect 2015 Winner : NavStik Labs
NavStik is one of the very few high-tech startups in the world, working on building next-generation platforms for commercial drone applications. In 2015, 3 million commercial drones worth $1.5 bn will be sold. That represents a growth rate of 300% over previous year. NavStik is working on building platforms/standards for this fast growing industry. Founded by alumni from IIT Bombay and University of Maryland, NavStik is now powered by a strong, talented and passionate team with background from IITs, NITs, University of Edinburgh and Texas Tech. NavStik products have been used by 40+ customers in 10+ countries. NavStik was the winner of Startup Showcase at TiECON Pune 2015, and has been featured in Economic Times, NDTV Gadgets, TOI, Indian Express, Mint, etc.

Other Winners:

Finalist : CarOK
CAROK is a Pune based startup with a mission to bring trust, transparency and efficiency to the unorganised automotive care sector. CAROK has a tie-up with a large number of car service providers in Pune. Using the CAROK website or call centre, a customer can get competitive quotes for his/her car servicing and also book a servicing appointment at their convenience. Along with this, CAROK's trained mechanics & service advisors will personally supervise the servicing of the customer's car to ensure that the service centre does a good job. Short Term Goal: With their recent funding, CAROK has a short-term goal of reaching 5,000 servicing bookings in Pune by March 2016. Long Term Goal: The long-term goal is to become the number one car care portal of the country.

Finalist : Startawiz
Stratawiz is a design and technology driven product company. We strive to use our creativity and technical prowess to build innovative enterprise mobile products to make marketing more effective and sales more productive. Our first product" Rapport" is first of its kind mobile based engagement and productivity platform that use game mechanics, social features and analytics to help companies bring out the best in their sales teams.

Finalist : Arcyus
Arcyus is a, primarily, research-oriented company committed to harnessing the power of bleeding-edge deep learning techniques to develop meaningful applications, both for the benefit of the common user and for augmenting enterprise services. We have developed a suite of core technologies for imaging applications that can be applied to multiple domains like e-commerce, healthcare etc.

Finalist : RoboEasy
We envision a future where software and electronics empowers everyone to create. For the same RoboEasy aims to build a strong platform introducing EduTech. Combining practicality with education, RoboEasy help students in developing logical thinking, enhancing decision making, connecting with practical life and much more. RoboEasy visions to make education practical and fun starting with Robotics for everyone.

News coverage 2015

PuneConnect 2015 has got great coverage in various newspapers. Here are some of them:

Snapshot 2015

Speakers 2015

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Puneconnect 2014

Puneconnect 2014

40 startups were selected to demo at PuneConnect 2014. 4 of them were selected to pitch their product on stage to a panel of judges. These startups have been declared as the winners:

Winners:

EcoZen Solutions 2014 Winner : Ecozen Solutions is an energy-foucssed company that provides renewable energy based products. It was started in Sep '09 with a motive to create awareness against poor energy management practices, to drive sustainability in the burgeoning Indian market, and elevate the Indian industry to the standards and expectations of a developed nation in the new era.

Other Winners:

Scandid : Best UI award :Scandid is a mobile shopping companion app which provides omni channel shopping experience across mobile apps and desktop. Scandid is India's only barcode based shopping comparison app where users can scan barcode of any product or search and lookup online prices and local promotions on that product. Scandid helps users to find the right product for their needs, its local & online prices, coupons, customer reviews, and specifications.

Green Raddiwala : Finalist :PASPAG WASTE MANAGEMENT started its operation with the very innovative idea about the recyclable waste collection and disposal process and operation. Company achieved very great success in the very short period of 9 months. Paspag waste management is the only company which adopted effective operation model to collect recyclable waste from residential customers by providing doorstep service while paying with the same market rate and 100% transparency.

Framebench : Finalist :Framebench allows teams to annotate and collaborate on visual content so they can exchange feedback easily and get to approvals faster, Companies use it to collaborate on everything from print material to UI wireframes to marketing collateral.

News coverage 2014

PuneConnect 2014 has got great coverage in various newspapers. Here are some of them:

Snapshot 2014

Speakers 2014

PuneConnect Winner 2014

Puneconnect 2013

Puneconnect 2013

27 startups were selected to demo at PuneConnect 2013. 5 of them were selected to pitch their product on stage to a panel of judges. These startups have been declared as the winners:

Overall Winner:Instaclique from Nirmantra Technologies: social shopping – get opinions of your friends when you're shopping in a online or offline. For an innovative product with great market potential, and a very well articulated vision.
Special Award from the Judges: LooRewards from Samagra: slum dwellers get discount coupons from local stores for using toilets and other sustainable behavior. For a product that judges would really like to see succeed.
Audience Choice Award: SaveTime: find the right doctor for you, based on crowd-sourced recommendations (including those of your friends). For the company that got most votes from the audience.